Device for clipping hats.



T. J. SAYRE. DEVICE FOR GLIPPING HATS, APPLIOATION FILED DBO.13, 1910.

1,003,810, Patented Sept. 19,1911.

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THEODORE J. SAYRE, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR CLIPIING HATS.

p i n f Le ter Pa en Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

Application filed December 13, 1910. Serial No. 597,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Tnnoooan J. Saran, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Clipping Hats; and I do hereby declare the following to' be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon. which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a clipper which is portable and can be used for clipping the nap or the brush part of hat bodies, and While it is particularly designed for hat bodies, it can also be used for clipping other things, as will be evident.

It has been the custom in clipping brushci'l hats, or hats with a long nap, to clip them in a fixed machine, and the difficulty has been to get-into the crown of the hot body because when the hat body is laid out flat it takes on a triangular shape, and when it is put over a conical form it also presents ditliculties when the workman attempts to get the small pointed part, or what would be the center of the crown, in position to be clipped. To overcome this I have devised this cutter which is adapted to be adjusted to a flexible shaft, and which has a handle on it, and which can be passed ovcra hat body and the hat'cli'pped to make a smooth, even surface and still provide a long enough uap or brush part. The clipper also ].)1'ovides means for adjusting the cutter portion of the clipper so that it can be regulated as to the length of nap that is to be clipped.

The invention is illustratedin the accompanying drawing in which- Figure l is a side view of the improved clipper. 2 is a section on line 2, 2, in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a top View, and Fig. "l; is a section of a part of the cutter lhroi'igh line 4 in Fig. 3. i

The clipper comprises a frame 10 which is open at the top, exceptv for its front part shield ll which extends down as at l2'ovcr the front of the frame and terminates near the bottom so as to prevent the operator being acci- 'dcntally cut by the rotary cutter to be here inafter described. The front of the frame complete.

near the bottom merges in a curve into the bottom so that the clipper can'be easily worked and slid at the different angles desired over the face of the work. A bottom plate 125 is provided with a bar i l, which bar, when it receives the screws 15, acts to hold the bottom plate in swinging relation with the frame so that its front edge if which is formed into a cutting edge, can be swung toward or from a rotary cutter l7 which arranged in bearings 18 al' the sides of the frame. The bottom plate 1;? is fastened to the uteri by screws 19 which are countersunk, and. the bottom plate thus forms a smooth surface which can be slid freely without cutting too far into the nap or the brush part of a hat body or similar fabric or goods. it will be seen that the frame thus providcdwith an opening from the edge of the shield 12 to the cutting edge of the bottom plate, and through this opening the nap or for to be cut passes.

The rotary cutter l7 cooperates with the front cutting edge of the bottom plate, and the rotary cutter has its cutting edges 20 arranged spirally or with a pitch so that a shearing action is caused l'ietwecn lhc edge of the bottom plate and the rotary cutter to sharply cut the hair without. pulling on it lo pull up the fabric, and the result in clipping provides an evenly cut nap when the operation of clipping the hat body is The sides of the frame 10 are widened as at 2'1. near the bottom, and adjusting screws '22 are arranged in the sides of the frame and are adapted to regulate the bottom plate by being forced against it as shown in Fig. 1. It will thus be seen that the bottom plate can be adjusted toward the a'olary cutter, at its cutting edge, by forcing down the screws 92 on the back end of the bottom plate. The block il l, while it acts as a means for fastening ihe'bottom plate in swingii'ig relation to the frame, also serves to prevent the climiings from going back against the cutting edge of the bottom plate so that when the rotary cutter is operated at a high spccdit throws the cut cndsof the fur or hair out through the open top of the cutter, but what material does not go out is prm'entcu from riding forward and interfer-mg Will] the cutting edge, or clogging up the space ad acent to the cuttnig edge, by rcaaoti of its being restrained by the bar ll, as,w.ill be evident.

of its being manually handled, it can be passed at will over particular parts of the body if they require extra clipping, and it has been found much more satisfactory and has greater utility than the previous style of cutters.

A shaft 24 is connected to the cutter and projects out from one side of the frame and is provided with means, such as a screw-. thread 25, to provide for the attachment of theflexible shaft 26 .thereto.

pivotal screws 15,,

g It will be understood that. to provide for the swinging of the bottom plate. the bot tom edges of the sides of the frame are inclined slightly to one or both sides of the Having thus described my invention, what I claim 'is 1. A. portable clipper comprising an opentopped box-like frame, a fiatbottom' plate on the frame extending to the back of the frame'and having its front edge provided with a cutting edge, said bottom plate forming the bottom for the box, a cutter arranged to rotate in the' front end of the frame and cooperate with the cutting edge of the bottom plate, a projection on the cutter extending through one side of the frame and providing for its attachment to a flexible shaft, and means for adjusting the bottom plate to move its cutting edge toward or from the rotary cutter.

2. A portable clipper comprisingan opentopped box-like frame having its front wall merging into the bottom wall and a. curve, an opening in the curved portion. of the frame,;a bottom plate having its cutting.

edge arranged to form one edge of the opening, said bottom plate extending from the back of the frame to nearthe front thereof to form a bottom forthe frame, means for tiltin'gly arranging the bottonrplatc in the frame, a rotary cutter arranged in the front end of the frame and adapted to cooperate with the cutting edge of the bottom plate, and means for adjusting the bottom plate in different tilted positions to adjust its on the front and a front part of the top of the frame, a bottom plate, a bar on the bottom plate, screws passing through the sides of the frame and into the bar of the bottom plate to hold the bottom late in tilting relation to the frame, and a justing screws arranged on the frame and bearing on the back end of the bottom plateto force the cutting edge of the bottom plate toward the rotary cutter, and a handle on the back of the frame.

4:. A portable clipper consisting of a frame open at the top and at the bot-tom, a rotary cutter mounted inthe front end of the frame, a flat bottom plate forming with the frame a box-like structure, a bar secured tothe bottom plate, said bar being secured to the frame to maintain said bottom plate in tilting relation to the frame, the front end of the bottom plate terminating short of the front end of the frame and being formed into a cutting edge to cooperate with the rotary,

cutter, and co-acting means on the bottom plate and the frame for holding the bottom plate in its different tilted positions.

5. A portable clipper consisting of a frame having an open top and bottom, a bottom plate suspended on the frame to form a bottom for the frame and extending from the back of the frame to near the front thereof and forming with the frame ing through the frame to provide for the operation of the cutter.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of December 1910.

THEODORE J. SAYRE.

Vitnesses:

WM. H. GAMFI LD, E. A. Penn. 

